From: thejournal.ie
When I was younger my following of new age spirituality was, if I’m wholly honest, more about novelty than any meaningful appreciation for the ideas. I was looking for an out from what I grew up with. Not that there was anything wrong with what I grew up with, other than it was what I grew up with. Now, as I grow older, I find myself revisiting many new age thoughts. More from the heart, rather than my typical brain level. As I dig deeper a richness that was apparently lost on me before unfold from my center.
I watched the eclipse last night in all its blood moon glory. As she came out of her dark phase and her sliver of light fell upon me it seemed not only right, but very powerful to contemplate a prayer to such an opalescent moon. Kneeling on the lawn in my urban neighborhood I found myself immediately connected to millions of native tribes around the world. Each attuned to the earth and the skies. Humble and grateful for the very pulse of the heavens. I find an appreciation, not only my life, but all life naturally fills me the moment my feet touched the grass. The intimacy of Source Energy comes up through the earth and rises up my legs, as it pours down upon my head and wraps itself around my arms with the subtlest breeze. There is no waiting when your skin touches the earth. Love is poured into you, as cool water into a great urn.
How strange it seems to me that we have, in many of the world’s religions, forsaken this extraordinary intimacy. An intimacy that feels more natural than any pew or scripture, but can only be known at a level that seems to lack any description. Maybe to the human brain, this is its offense. That we can know you and yet not describe or confirm any boundary or limit or specificity to you. Maybe all religion is, is the outward manifestation of our inner madness at this affront. We cannot wholly know you, so we will stomp our feet and defy you and say that we can. We are, as a species, nothing if not stubborn. I smile, realizing I am also talking of my own stubbornness.
The crickets creek, the tall grasses rustle and the owl hoots in the marsh. It is clear we are all ready to pray.
May your luminescence fill me. Fill every pour of my being and ignite every cell. May your wisdom and gentle balancing of the earth and the tides, be a balancing within me, as well. May I cast this gift of light I take from you tonight, everywhere I go. May I be a full moon in the dark night of others that I, too, become a beautiful celestial body floating in this Universe. Not only on this night, but in all the days of my life.
Namaste, my dear friend.
From: Earthsky.org
Meditation Travelogue 
It was TS Eliot who said, “We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
Revisiting can be an intense learning experience. Thank you Noelle. Great post.
The moon has that effect on me. Love the T.S? Eliot quote.
Immensely beautiful. It touched me deeply my friend. And I love your photographs, too. Here’s to our ever growing luminescence.
Just realized the photos are not yours, but perfectly chosen.
Here! He Really! May we all be goddesses under a full moon!
Yes, indeed, I have a bit of a love affair with that beautiful orb in the night sky.
I think the moon was made for the feminine of this world.
feeling that moon
light’s spell 🙂
Such beauty in your writing and thoughts. My reaction to the moon last night was wanting to sing to it. A song to the Earth I know has been rattling around in my head all day to express so many thoughts at the same time in the richness of creation, beauty everywhere in nature, gratitude to the Source. Namaste.
Well, you are in fact a singer. You and Ted should have gone out on the lawn. He with his violin and you singing. Would’ve been awesome for the neighbor’s!
Beautiful Noelle , the intimacy you write of is astonishing in its beauty and I’m so grateful you have shared it thru the glory of our moon ….love , megxxx
Thank you for the blood moon blessing, my friend. Your words do well to capture the beauty of the moment.
I enjoyed your reflection on the return to previous ideas, but with intimacy. For me, too, this is what is lost in institutions… The directness of connection we can savor in the core of our own being, and share with others. We don’t need dogma to fall in love…
Peace
Michael
I am not against any religion, but I do feel many teach more about what is written in a book, then about how it feels to suddenly be mindful of spirit moving within and around you. This seems like it should be the first primer, not the last.
Then celestial-wise
May you be Here
All the days of your life
And beyond that likewise 🙂
What a lovely response. thank you….